The principles of Freemasonry (freedom of conscience, fraternity, symbolic quest) quickly won over the intellectual, ...

The Broad Street museum about Freemasons brings to light the fraternal organization that counts many presidents as members.

Several Masonic signs have been found 'hidden' in paintings of Scotland's bard Robert Burns. Tiny letters and symbols have been painted in minute detail in a paintings by Alexander Nasmyth, a ...

The plot of Dan Brown's "Lost Symbol" was kept secret until its release. Sept. 15, 2009— -- This time, it's not a fanciful yarn about the holy father's deep dark secrets. Instead, the ...

The court case in Belfast may unlock secrets in ancient order. Sept. 23, 2009— -- Dan "The Da Vinci Code" Brown has just written a book about them, and now a court case in Belfast could unearth ...

Washington, Sep 16 (ANI): After novelist Dan Brown portrayed the Freemasons in his new book 'The Lost Symbol', and wrote on the various myths surrounding them, the search for the truth behind the ...

A half-century ago, when more Americans participated in civic groups, 4.1 million men regularly spent evenings at Masonic lodges around the country. That period, from the late 1950s to the early 1960s ...

WASHINGTON — The lodge room of the Naval Masonic Hall is a colorful and somewhat inscrutable sight for the nonmember, with its blue walls, Egyptian symbols, checkered floor in the center and high ...

Six years after Brown intrigued millions of readers with "The Da Vinci Code," he has set his new novel, "The Lost Symbol," in Washington and probed the Freemasons, a fraternal order that well suits ...